Hi everyone,

We are currently trying to sync the field of an Account from an external service.
The external service is a just an Azure database, there is also an http api in front of the database that we can use.

What we want to achieve is :

Each time a salesforce user display the account page, the data is retrieved from the external database/webservice and the Account's field is updated accordingly.

We found potential solutions but are not sure which one is the best :

- There's something called "Lightning" that looks like it could do the job.
- We can create an Apex method that will do the job.
     - How can we trigger it so that we have the behavior we want ? Could we invoke it with javascript from the account page ?
     - If we can't achieve the behavior we want, is invoking it with a 'refresh' button the best method ?


Thanks everyone

Hi everyone,

We are currently trying to sync the field of an Account from an external service.
The external service is a just an Azure database, there is also an http api in front of the database that we can use.

What we want to achieve is :

Each time a salesforce user display the account page, the data is retrieved from the external database/webservice and the Account's field is updated accordingly.

We found potential solutions but are not sure which one is the best :

- There's something called "Lightning" that looks like it could do the job.
- We can create an Apex method that will do the job.
     - How can we trigger it so that we have the behavior we want ? Could we invoke it with javascript from the account page ?
     - If we can't achieve the behavior we want, is invoking it with a 'refresh' button the best method ?


Thanks everyone

Hi everyone,

We are currently trying to sync the field of an Account from an external service.
The external service is a just an Azure database, there is also an http api in front of the database that we can use.

What we want to achieve is :

Each time a salesforce user display the account page, the data is retrieved from the external database/webservice and the Account's field is updated accordingly.

We found potential solutions but are not sure which one is the best :

- There's something called "Lightning" that looks like it could do the job.
- We can create an Apex method that will do the job.
     - How can we trigger it so that we have the behavior we want ? Could we invoke it with javascript from the account page ?
     - If we can't achieve the behavior we want, is invoking it with a 'refresh' button the best method ?


Thanks everyone